Meeting with our lawmakers in Capitol Hill

Meeting with our lawmakers in Capitol Hill

Stop Before you start

Welcome to our cause! We are the Borrego brothers, Juan D. Borrego and Marco A. Borrego. It is our mission to educate and prevent future use of e-cigarettes in teenagers and adolescents. The e-cigarette epidemic has impacted us and our friends directly. Vaping and juul use is an incredibly important future public health issue. No one knows the long term harmful effects of these products. Adolescents and teens, specifically, are especially susceptible to the harmful effects of these products because they are undergoing brain and body development. Use of these products and exposure to its carcinogenic chemicals during growth and development could cause detrimental effects on a teens cell lines, genes, and organs. They can also develop addictive behaviors.

We have developed a curriculum with the help of Dr. Bonnie Halpern-Felsher for students of all ages based on current epidemiological research and current law to educate teenagers and adolescents on the detrimental effects of these products. We have this curriculum available on our website for personal and school use.



 
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Vape flavors can make nasty new chemicals in your e-liquid

https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/18/17996706/vape-juice-flavoring-electronic-cigarettes-chemicals-ingredients-irritating-e-liquid

 
It is difficult for the consumer to control exposure to flavor chemicals....Manufacturers do not list the flavor chemicals and their concentrations on products, so consumers do not have a simple way to identify products they might choose not to use if they had more information on their contents.
— Prue Talbot a molecular biology researcher at the University of California Riverside. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-heart-vaping-flavors/e-cigarette-flavorings-may-damage-blood-vessels-and-heart-idUSKBN1K12WY